The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don’t even know you are making.

Assumptions don’t do any good in life. Especially when they come to people. Our best guess of who someone is not close to who they actually are. Each path is different. And the only person we can really know and understand is ourselves. If we put in the effort.

What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you no longer want it. Your imaginal act is as much a creative act as a physical one wherein man halts, shrinks and is blessed, for as man creates his own likeness, so does your imaginal act transform itself into the likeness of your assumption. If, however, you do not reach the point of satisfaction, repeat the action over and over again until you feel as though you touched it and virtue went out of you.

Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption
and watch the world play its part
relative to to its fulfillment.